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Vickie Lester, and a moment of penance for a film that opens Christmas Day

“The Hateful Eight”

The glory of 70 mm filmmaking resurrected in the service of a vapid one-note narrative, that devolves into a prolonged finale of exploding meat bags.

That said, I’ve seen a number of films this year that were excellent — this just wasn’t one of them — and it was particularly disappointing that such a beautiful method, mothballed for 50 years, made its comeback with this.